Another guest post today by Sara Whitman of Suburban Lesbian Housewife. I talk a lot about toddlers and preschool-age children, because that’s where my personal experience is. Sara reminds us, however, that the challenges of parenting change, but don’t ease, as our children grow older. My son Ben came home today and told me he […]
At our local library the other day, I flipped through Kids Cook 1-2-3: Recipes for Young Chefs Using Only 3 Ingredients, but didn’t expect much. I assumed it told how to mix chocolate chips and raisins into a pre-made cake mix and the like. Instead, I was surprised to find recipes from fresh ingredients and
Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. I’ve never understood the whole fascination with pirates, though. Here we are (most of us, anyway), trying to raise our children not to fight or steal, and yet we let them run around the house mimicking those whose main activities were fighting and stealing. My four-year-old has picked
Same-sex parenting stories abound this week. Here are some highlights: A married lesbian couple has filed a human rights complaint against the province of Nova Scotia, Canada because it does not recognize both of them as parents to their child (born after the wedding) unless the non-biological mother adopts her. The American Civil Liberties Union
Yesterday, Joe Tralongo of Gaywheels.com offered the first half of a guest post on family-friendly and gay-friendly haulin’ vehicles. Not everyone wants the same thing in a car, as was clear from comments on the post, but I hope these reviews will give you some sense of what’s on offer if you are in search
Thanks to Gaywheels.com, “the Gay-Friendly Automotive Resource,” for today’s special guest post, first of a two-part series. Gaywheels’ Joe Tralongo has put together for Mombian a list of family-friendly—and gay-friendly—vehicles worth checking out if you’re in the market for a new ride for yourself and your clan. If, however, you’re having a midlife crisis and
Events like this restore my faith in humanity. When a ninth-grade student at Central Kings Rural High School in Nova Scotia, Canada wore a pink shirt on his first day of school, he was called a homosexual, harassed, and threatened. Twelfth-graders David Shepherd and Travis Price decided to take action. They used the Internet to
The fine folks at Family Pride have reminded me there are only two days left in their Back-to-School Family Poetry Contest. The theme for the contest is “love is . . . .” Finalists will be selected by Family Pride’s panel of judges, and then winners will be selected by public vote on their site.
I admit it. I’m a skeptic when it comes to parenting books. I think I was put off after reading the touted What to Expect When You’re Expecting and finding it saccharine and patronizing. Or maybe it is just the sheer volume of parenting tomes on display at any given bookstore, each touting its own
A few items on LGBT families that didn’t make my Political Roundup yesterday: Australia’s The Age has a lengthy article on gay and lesbian parents and our families. Mostly familiar territory for those of us in the LGBT community, but interesting for those of us not in Australia. In that vein, I will repeat one
